Lindsey Hughes
Biography
Lindsey Hughes is a counsel in the Finance Practice Group in the Dallas office of Haynes Boone. She represents some of the world’s largest financial institutions in connection with the structuring, negotiation and documentation of complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, including subscription-secured credit facilities with top-tier private equity and real estate funds. Lindsey also has experience representing financial institutions and commercial borrowers in syndicated credit facilities, term loans, construction loans, real estate secured loans, hybrid collateral facilities, and acquisition financings.
Lindsey Hughes is a counsel in the Finance Practice Group in the Dallas office of Haynes Boone. She represents some of the world’s largest financial institutions in connection with the structuring, negotiation and documentation of complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, including subscription-secured credit facilities with top-tier private equity and real estate funds. Lindsey also has experience representing financial institutions and commercial borrowers in syndicated credit facilities, term loans, construction loans, real estate secured loans, hybrid collateral facilities, and acquisition financings.
- Assisted in the representation of agents, lenders and borrowers in syndicated credit transactions involving revolving credit facilities, term loans, letters of credit, and acquisition financings.
- Assisted in the representation of administrative agents and lead arrangers in connection with multiple subscription secured credit facilities.
- Assisted in the representation of a large dining, hospitality and entertainment company in connection with the acquisition of a high-end seafood restaurant chain, a private offering of senior secured notes, a $1.2 billion refinancing of its senior secured revolving credit facility secured by real property and personal assets managed by domestic subsidiaries, a Rule 144A offering of $425 million senior notes, and a tender offer repurchase of the issuer's outstanding notes.
- Assisted in the representation of a real estate lender in connection with a real estate secured loan to fund the acquisition of master-planned residential communities and golf courses.
- Assisted in the representation of an energy company in connection with a $75 million operating loan.
- Dallas Bar Association
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Dallas Association of Women Lawyers
- Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, Board of Directors
- United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Co-Chair, Advocacy Committee
- United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, March Tocqueville Fellow
- Georgetown University Alumni Club of North Texas, Board of Directors
- Lindsey was selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, for Banking, 2015-2021
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., Banking and Finance Law, 2024-2025
- "Affirmative and Negative Loan Covenants: Customizing Obligations and Restrictions Specific to the Transaction," CLE Webinar for Strafford, September 26, 2024.
- "How to Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up”, author, Law 360, June 30, 2023.
- "Fund Finance Insights: Trends in Facility Tenors," co-author, Haynes Boone client alert, August 10, 2023.
- "Fund Finance Insights: Uncommitted Facilities," co-author, Haynes Boone client alert, October 16, 2023.
- "Summer Lessons for Fall Associates – Five Steps for Early Success”, co-author, Thomas Reuters Westlaw Today, October 26, 2023.
Education
B.A., Government, Georgetown University, 2006, cum laude
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 2010, with honors, Article and Notes Editor, Texas International Law Journal
Admissions
Texas
